Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What then about Khrushchev's talk of outproducing the U.S.? "Nonsense," says one U.S. expert whose specialty is Russian economics. By a totalitarian concentration, the Soviet Union might top U.S. output in a few items, but Russia's economy is "like a younger brother who always seems to be catching up to his older brother, but never really does because the older brother also keeps growing...
Another expert, University of Virginia Economist G. Warren Nutter, compared Russian economic growth to U.S. experience at about the same phase of development-between 1880 and 1920-and concludes that in these 40 years the U.S. surpassed Soviet growth in its first four decades. Soviet Russia has scored its most impressive gains in a few key fields such as steel, oil and heavy construction, whereas U.S. productive energies have ranged over a far wider spectrum, and established a much wider base. Assuming a continuous growth in the U.S. economy, Soviet output will still be badly lagging by either...
Last week, before 15,000 people gathered for a Russian-Polish friendship rally in Moscow's new Sports Palace, Khrushchev opened up what is obviously Russia's winter offensive in foreign policy. In a first hasty reading, the world took him to mean a new hot time in Berlin. But his real goal was Germany itself...
...East Germany Premier Otto Grote-wohl seemed almost in a hurry to say, shortly after Khrushchev's speech, that nothing "sensational" was about to happen-then, correcting his initial announcement, added that, "naturally," Russian troops are likely to withdraw only when Western forces pull...
...asked: What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister and the Russian ambassador. Schaffer did it on his own, said Adenauer, and had not been deterred because "his conscience" required...